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The platform is designed to help teachers , coaches and sports medics to log and monitor sports-related injury data in 11- to 18-year-olds . This important data – which is currently unavailable – delivers greater oversight over the volume of sporting activity undertaken by young people and any injuries that they sustain .

The captured data is anonymised , gathered in a secure data lake and made available to researchers within the Podium Analytics Institute for Youth Sports Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford , who will deploy the latest AI and modelling techniques to identify causes of injury , how to reduce the long-term impact of injury as well as potential preventative measures against injury .

Podium established that a mobile app would be the most effective method for capturing details of sports injuries sustained by athletes . With its cloud-first , cloud-native , multi-cloud strategy , Podium selected OutSystems for its ability to build highperformance apps quickly and within sight of the intended users , ensuring that their feedback could be incorporated on-the-fly . While it would have taken approximately four months to develop a mobile app with the depth of capability Podium required , OutSystems was able to fast-track the process to create one in six weeks .

Podium also recognised OutSystems ’ ability to scale as the apps and user needs evolved and to iterate quickly and at pace with the development team ’ s demands . A further advantage of OutSystems is that it gave Podium the option to offer users different ways of capturing the data , from entering it manually via a device ’ s screen or keypad , using speech recognition as an interface , to video upload . By simplifying the process for logging information about the injury in real time , Podium will be able to analyse the data and create interventions , insights , advice and training programmes that aim to minimise future injuries while also improving the return-to-play process for those recovering from injury .

“ We are delighted to have partnered with OutSystems ,” said Damian Smith , Chief Technology Officer of Podium Analytics . “ While there are many app development platforms available , OutSystems stands apart for marrying ease of use with enterprise-grade capabilities . We have been able to develop an app which is simple to use and powerful enough to capture the breadth of data we need in order to reduce injury in sport . OutSystems enables us to fail fast and iterate quickly , which has helped to dramatically speed up the pace at which we can make a difference on the ground .” �

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